TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Disaster Preparedness A1 - Hendrickson, Robert G. A1 - Horowitz, B. Zane A2 - Tintinalli, Judith E. A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Yealy, Donald M. A2 - Meckler, Garth D. A2 - Stapczynski, J. Stephan A2 - Cline, David M. A2 - Thomas, Stephen H. Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 9e AB - Disasters have claimed millions of lives and cost billions of dollars worldwide in the past few decades. Examples of large-scale disasters include the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; the 2004 Pacific Ocean tsunami; the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan; the 2015 earthquake in Nepal; Superstorm Sandy of 2012; and the refugee and civil war crises in Africa. Emergency physicians frequently have extensive responsibilities for community and hospital-level disaster preparedness and response. Planning for these may include smaller-scale disasters such as active shooters, explosions, building fires, or transportation accidents, and increased patient volume from predictable events (e.g., storms, blizzards, floods, large gatherings for major sporting events or music festivals, or protests of large scale with anticipated violence). This chapter discusses the definition of a disaster, disaster preparedness and planning, the hospital emergency operations plan, field disaster response, and the ED disaster response. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166526002 ER -